BASKETS FOB TRANSPORT. 



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lifting every package, are certain to catcli it up suddenly by 

 one side, and the birds are often severely injured by being 

 suddenly and violently thrown against the opposite one. 



The consideration of the best means of arranging for the 

 transport of birds over long distances and by shipboard is 

 given at length in the Appendix. 



The vignette represents the head of a hen pheasant with 

 a singular beak, the upper mandible having passed between 

 the rami of. the lower. The bird was found dead from 

 starvation. It is evident that the deformity was caused 

 by the bird flying against a branch, the blow bending the 

 upper mandible and causing it to pass through the lower. 



